I'm currently a co-founder at Vcreate, where we're engineering T-cell receptors to cure cancer.
Previously I co-founded Nash, a platform for crypto-first banking where I'm still an advisor.
I have a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, where I worked at the intersection of human-computer interaction and
machine learning. I founded my first startup in 2011, a web analytics company funded by YC.
Companies
I have co-founded several notable companies and organizations.
Vcreate
Vcreate is developing a plaform for T-cell receptor discovery based on novel assays and machine learning.
Founded 2020
Nash
Nash is a non-custodial exchange and asset management platform for cryptocurrencies and other tokens.
We have developed technology that brings stronger performance and UX to non-custodial trading.
Founded 2017
Proxino
Proxino is a web analytics platform for JavaScript focused on error tracking and message logging.
The company is no longer operational.
Founded 2011
Funded by Y Combinator
Research
During my PhD I did research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Programming Languages,
and Natural Language Processing. I led work on more than ten published projects, most of which involved
significant systems building. My full publication record is available
on Google Scholar but I've included
a few of my favorite research initiatives below.
Empath
Empath is a text analyis tool powered by machine-generated lexicons.
This work won a Best Paper award at CHI 2016.
CHI 2016
105 citations
Iris
Iris explored how we can bridge conversational agents with general purpose programming languages.
CHI 2018
29 citations
Augur
Augur learned to predict human behavior by analyzing fiction.
This work won an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2016.
CHI 2016
27 citations
Trends in the Public Perception of AI
We analyzed how public views about AI shifted over a 30-year period using a large corpus
of articles from the New York Times.
AAAI 2017
52 citations
Maria
We used LSTM models to predict HLA class II antigen presentation. This work was led by
my partner Binbin Chen.
Nature Biotechnology 2019
Job Talks
I interviewed for tenure-track faculty positions at MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley before deciding to focus completely on my startup.
Meeting and explaining my ideas to so many incredibly smart people
was a unique and valuable experience.
Open Source Work
I've created a number of open source projects on Github, some of which became popular.
A selection of these are below.
Neon Wallet
Neon is a light wallet for managing digital assets on the NEO blockchain. I created it
in 2017 when I co-founded the open source group
CoZ. It is now managed by other
open source contributors. At one point Neon had more than 100,000 active users.
Published 2017
TypedJS
An experimental project to help JavaScript developers fuzz-test their programs using type annotations,
inspired by Haskell's QuickCheck. This was back before type checking JavaScript was popular.
Published 2012
Gajure
A framework for implementing Genetic Algorithms in Clojure. I made this in undergrad after publishing
some other work on automatically fixing program bugs with evolutionary algorithms.
Published 2010
Press
My research and industry work has been covered in venues such as the Globe and Mail, CNBC,
Endgadget, TechCrunch, Canadian Public Radio, and New Scientist.
Published 2019
Cryptoslate
Published 2018
Advancements
CNBC
Published 2017
New Scientist
Published 2016
Globe and Mail
Published 2016
Canadian Public Radio
Spark Podcast
Published 2016
Singularity Hub
Published 2011
TechCrunch
Essays
From 2009-2012 (college to early startup years) I wrote a number of short essays.
I do not necessarily endorse the views of my past self.
I have also written things on Medium.